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Show STOP THAT KNOCKING. Some days after the great Cornish pump was set in motion on. the Ontario mine, Colonel Ferry, the candidate for Governor of the American Party, was driving by the pump station, and Was distressed dis-tressed to hear with every movement of the piston, pis-ton, a knock which indicated to his trained mechanical me-chanical ear that there was not the perfect harmony har-mony that should prevail in the complex machinery. machin-ery. Calling the engineer out, he asked why he did not stop that knocking. The man answered: "I have broken a dozen valves and grown prematurely prema-turely gray in trying to do that same thing, and I cannot, the, thing is beyond me. I do not know what the matter is." The Coloneljhought a moment, mo-ment, and then said: "Water cannot be compressed, com-pressed, but air can; bore a tiny hole into the cylinder cyl-inder on the exhaust side, that Will let in some air, and that ought to serve as a buffer with each stroke Of the piston, and stop the knocking." He passed again in a day or two, and the engine en-gine was running as smooth as one of Judge Powers' Pow-ers' spell-binding perorations. He called the en-glpeer en-glpeer out, who was effusive in thU thankfulness for the suggestion. That reminds us that the Colonel ought to drive past the Tribune office. There are two 01 throe cylinders there that have heads that are perpetually knocking. It would be no .trouble for the Colonel to find the exhaust valve, it Is the most prominent feature of the whole machine and point out the places whore ths cylinders ought to be bored, and if there is no drill handy, tle Colonel might try a sanglaj, for something should be done to "stop that knocking." |
